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- [tap]
- /tæp/
- /tæp/
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- [tap]
- /tæp/
Definitions of tap word
- abbreviation Technical meaning of TAP Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol 3
- verb with object tap to draw liquid from (a vessel or container). 1
- verb with object tap to draw off (liquid) by removing or opening a tap or by piercing a container. 1
- verb with object tap to draw the tap or plug from or pierce (a cask or other container). 1
- verb with object tap to penetrate, open up, reach into, etc., for the purpose of using something or drawing something off; begin to use: to tap one's resources. 1
- verb with object tap to connect into secretly so as to receive the message or signal being transmitted: to tap a telephone wire or telephone. 1
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Origin of tap
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; (v.) Middle English tappen, variant of early Middle English teppen, probably imitative; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.
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Parts of speech for Tap
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tap popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
tap usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tap
verb tap
- adopt — If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
- appoint — If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
noun tap
- alehouse — An alehouse is a pub.
- beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
- bell-ringer — Alternative spelling of bell ringer.
- bibb — a wooden support on a mast for the trestletrees
- bibcock — a tap having a nozzle bent downwards and supplied from a horizontal pipe
Antonyms for tap
verb tap
- arrive at — to reach by traveling
- bam — a hoax, deception, cheating
- bamming — a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.
- bang — If something bangs, it makes a sudden loud noise, once or several times.
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
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